Revolutionary biodiesel discovery starts at Augsburg

[Red Badger]

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[Red Badger]

Bio-Diesel KnOcK!....................

[chrisser]

that capture carbon dioxide can be a source of Mcgyan feedstock oil. The use of algae oil simultaneously reduces the demand on arable land for fuel purposes and scrubs the atmosphere of a greenhouse gas.

Does this mean we can stop burning our food now?

[Slapshot68]

They are getting closer to being able to develop biodiesel from a multitude of non-agricultural sources. This would eliminate us having to turn most of our vital food crop over to the energy industry.

Ethanol is a joke.

[chrisser]

I like the idea of using algaeas a feedstock. There’s plenty of desert in this country with lots of sun - perfect location for algae production in a closed system.

Its idiotic to use our food as a fuel source.

[Mygirlsmom]

Does this mean we can stop burning our food now?

No, ethanol is a political pander to corn producers and nothing else which means it goes forward on a continuously larger scale in spite of any information to the contrary.

[muawiyah]

In response to the question of "can we stop burning our food now", I'd say no. In fact, quite the opposite. Recall that the article said this process can include "the byproducts from ethanol production".

What that means is that ethanol production just got cheaper since it's "byproducts" can now have a much higher market price than that claimed for low grade supplemental animal feed or paper products.

[Red Badger]

I certainly hope so! But also, in the article, the process can also use the leftovers from ETHANOL production as a feedstock. That might make things worse!.............

[Red Badger]

Ethanol is a joke It ain't funny anymore......

[stylin19a]

...Mcgyan Process which is named for the three scientists officially credited with the discovery (McNeff, Gyberg, and Yan).

So, the guy whose curiosity/inquiry/idea started it all, get's an 'atta boy' but no credit ?

[Brilliant]

They don’t really tell you much about the process. Generally that is a sign that a new scientific discovery is just hype.

[muawiyah]

Ethanol is hardly a joke. At the moment we are at the first stages of a "learning curve" and not all the pieces are in place. Here's another piece ~ a very serious use for ethanol byproducts.

You'll have to learn to grow your own sweetcorn out back in the garden and give up that hard crunch stuff they feed pigs.

[Red Badger]

It’s a college newspaper, I doubt the editor even understands.......But it did say it was already in use making 50k gals per annum, and a 3 mil plant is to be built.......somebody’s got dough.......

[Need4Truth]

Here’s a link:

http://www.startribune.com/business/16404276.html

[Red Badger]

You'll have to learn to grow your own sweetcorn out back in the garden...

You mean like we do down South for the last couple hunnert years?............

[saganite]

Not a lot of info here. In fact it looks like a press release.

[bert]

It means that croplands will suffer from a dearth of CO2 that is being fed to alge

[muawiyah]

Hey, even Canadians can grow sweetcorn now ~ they have some 60 day varieties ~ of course, they only have 59 growing days.

Yup ~ need to grow your own.

[Red Badger]

http://www.evercatfuels.com/

[Abathar]

I had a friend point out the benefits of algae as a fuel source about three years ago and have been following it since. With the combination of using waste CO2 from conventional power plant exhaust to augment the production of a renewable source makes great sense to me.

The stuff feeds off of industrial, human, and animal waste, just about anything it can break down and grow from, even the waste product of the algae itself can be fed back to the live ones as food. With the US having so much unused dry and sunny land in the S.W. running pipelines to feed the stuff from major cities would be no problem either, I really think this is where we need to start investing our resources in development and get away from current thinking.